"Let me get the door for you!"

Jesse has become quite the gentleman.  I haven't had to open a door in weeks!  And as long as the doors are off the Jeep, that one won't get old for either of us.

Well, I am now 22 years old, and what have I accomplished?

Or that I am a great interior decorator (earthtones!)

I could say that I am a master pizza crust tosser

Highly qualified pastry chef
(Yes, that's homemade ice cream)

X-man (I totally look like Wolverine, right?)

But I guess those things don't really matter.  What does matter is that I have an amazing husband who makes me laugh, who took me to my first drive-in movie, and who lets me do whatever I want to our little home.  Where he draws the line is me taking pictures of him and posting them on facebook.  But I am a highly resourceful woman, and Windows phones just got instagram!  He says he's going to get an instagram just to follow me and see what I post.  And people say that you marry your father...They're right.

So lets get on to the narrative, shall we?  I have more pictures than I know what to do with, today!

Sunday was my birthday.  It was pretty laid back...Just lots of food and a movie.  We had planned on going to the beach, but we decided to wait and go with Cricket.  Thankfully, I didn't have to work that day, which was nice.  Two of the three owners of Party Planet are no longer part of the business, which leaves a lot of stuff on Leslie's plate, the remaining sole owner.  It also has given those of us employees who are accustomed to working alone and handling money a few more hours than we have gotten before this.  I've really been enjoying working there more.  Having one boss instead of three is much less stressful and confusing.

The other great thing about working at Party Planet, is that we now are living about 1 mile away, which means I can walk to work!  I've been trying to put the time I spend walking home to good use by actually calling people and talking to them.  Like, on the phone.  Like, hear someone's voice and have conversations.  How old school is that?  It's been good, though.  So if you ever wanna have a good old phone conversation, I'm usually walking home from work at 1:00 (which is 11:00 Oregon time).  Sooo....call me, maybe?

My artistic endeavors--or...daydreams; I haven't actually done any of it--are expanding.  I am planning to recreate The Wall.  When I was in highschool (so not that long ago), I taped some pictures to my wall, like every teenage girl does.  Every time I did something with my friends, we would take pictures, I would print them out, and they were added to The Wall.  Eventually it grew to cover almost the entire wall, and included things like a rice krispy treat wrapper, and the top of a pringles can.  Not super classy, but one of the best things I ever created.  It was an entire wall of memories.  Some were sweet, some were bittersweet, but it was my life, and it made me happy.  It took it with me when I moved out, and finally threw it away shortly before Jesse and I got married.

Jesse thinks it's just teenage drama, and it will be dumb, but I think (and Cristin agrees) that if you put anything in a frame, it becomes art.  So my plan is to get a ton of little frames, and put them all together in an intentionally hodge podge way.  I can put up pictures from the movie we saw the first time he tricked me into hanging out with him, of the time we went to the beach and soaked when we first started dating, of the wedding, of the train park right before me moved.  I can put up the picture of me and Joy, the last one I took before getting in the Uhaul and driving to Texas.  Pictures from Thanksgiving with the Oregonian Orphans and Christmas with the family.  I can frame the pile of notes that  used to put in his lunches, and that will eb all cute and stuff, and when Cricket comes down I can put pictures of her on the wall...It would just be great. 

So that's my latest interior decorating plan.  But for the moment, it is time for me to put on another hat (chef's hat) and start dinner.

Till next time!